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We investigate the structure of the light meson with one dynamical gluon from the light-front QCD Hamiltonian, determined for their constituent quark-antiquark and quark-antiquark-gluon Fock sectors, together with a three-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-19 Jiangshan Lan , Kaiyu Fu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We investigate the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the pion and kaon from the eigenstates of a light-front effective Hamiltonian in the constituent quark-antiquark representation suitable for low-momentum scale applications. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-07 Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Shaoyang Jia , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Hamiltonian light-front quantum field theory provides a framework for calculating both static and dynamic properties of strongly interacting relativistic systems. Invariant masses, correlated parton amplitudes and time-dependent scattering…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2014-06-10 James P. Vary , Xingbo Zhao , Anton Ilderton , Heli Honkanen , Pieter Maris , Stanley J. Brodsky

A new scheme for calculating masses and boost-invariant wave functions of heavy quarkonia is developed in a light-front Hamiltonian formulation of QCD. Only the simplest approximate version with one flavor of quarks and an ansatz for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Stanislaw D. Glazek

We employ the Basis Light-Front Quantization (BLFQ) framework to compute the leading-twist (twist-2) and subleading-twist (twist-3) transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (TMDs) of the kaon. The light-front wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-13 Yuanqi Lu , Zhimin Zhu , Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We compute the gravitational form factors (GFFs) of the pion and kaon using their light-front wave functions within the Basis Light-Front Quantization framework. The wave functions are obtained by solving a light-front effective Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-19 Amrita Sain , Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Starting from the bound state Hamiltonian equation of motion in QCD, we derive relativistic light-front wave equations in terms of an invariant impact variable $\zeta$ which measures the separation of the quark and gluonic constituents…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Guy F. de Teramond , Stanley J. Brodsky

In previous papers we developed the light front formulation for Hamiltonians and wave functions (WFs) for mesons and baryons, with both confinement and chiral symmetry breaking. For baryons limited to the lowest Fock component with three…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-04 Nicholas Miesch , Edward Shuryak , Ismail Zahed

We investigate the properties of octet and decuplet baryons in a light-front holographic model. By taking into account the effect of nonvanishing quark mass, we obtain the modified light-front wave functions which are applicable at both low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-18 Tianbo Liu , Bo-Qiang Ma

We solve for the light-front wave functions (LFWFs) of the physical photon from the eigenvectors of the light-front quantum electrodynamics (QED) Hamiltonian with the aim to determine its bare photon and electron-positron Fock components.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Sreeraj Nair , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , Asmita Mukherjee , James P. Vary

Light-front Hamiltonian formulation of QCD with only one flavor of quarks is used in its simplest approximate version to calculate masses and boost-invariant wave functions of c-anti-c or b-anti-b mesons. It is shown that in the Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Stanislaw D. Glazek , Jaroslaw Mlynik

We compute the static-light baryon spectrum by means of Wilson twisted mass lattice QCD using N_f = 2 flavors of sea quarks. As light u/d valence quarks we consider quarks, which have the same mass as the sea quarks with corresponding pion…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2011-09-21 Marc Wagner , Christian Wiese

A method for computing electromagnetic properties of hadrons in lattice QCD is applied to the extraction of electromagnetic properties of the octet baryons. This allows a determination of the full dependence of the baryon masses on the…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Duncan , E. Eichten , H. Thacker

We develop a unified algebraic model which satisfactorily describes the internal structure of pion and kaon as well as heavy quarkonia ($\eta_c$ and $\eta_b$). For each of these mesons, we compute their generalized parton distributions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-17 L. Albino , I. M. Higuera-Angulo , K. Raya , A. Bashir

Light-Front quark model spin wave functions are employed to calculate the three independent couplings g_{\Sigma_c \Lambda_c \pi}, f_{\Lambda_{c1} \Sigma_c \pi} and f_{\Lambda^{*}_{c1} \Sigma_c \pi} of S-wave to S-wave and P-wave to S-wave…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Salam Tawfiq , Patrick J. O'Donnel , J. G. Koerner

The parameter-free predictions for the $N - P_{11}(1440)$ and $N - P_{33}(1232)$ electromagnetic transition form factors, obtained within our light-front constituent quark model using eigenfunctions of a baryon mass operator which includes…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 F. Cardarelli , E. Pace , G. Salmé , S. Simula

Within the basis light-front quantization framework, we systematically investigate the unpolarized and longitudinally polarized double parton distributions (DPDs) of quarks inside the proton. We utilize the light-front wave functions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Tian-Cai Peng , Zhi Hu , Sreeraj Nair , Siqi Xu , Xiang Liu , Chandan Mondal , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

We find a correspondence between semiclassical QCD quantized on the light-front and a dual gravity model in anti--de Sitter (AdS) space, thus providing an initial approximation to QCD in its strongly coupled regime. This correspondence --…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Guy F. de Teramond , Stanley J. Brodsky

We obtain the pion and the kaon parton distribution functions from the eigenstates of a light front effective Hamiltonian in the constituent quark-antiquark representation suitable for low-momentum scale applications. By taking these scales…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-07 Jiangshan Lan , Chandan Mondal , Shaoyang Jia , Xingbo Zhao , James P. Vary

Light-front wave functions play a fundamental role in the light-front quantization approach to QCD and hadron structure. However, a naive implementation of the light-front quantization suffers from various subtleties including the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-04 Xiangdong Ji , Yizhuang Liu